A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Joshua Reynolds
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Joshua Reynolds
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Joshua Reynolds
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Joshua Reynolds
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Joshua Reynolds
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.